10 hours ago, grollies said:

B300/kg 

 

Free range or not , the price is ridiculous.

5 hours ago, balo said:

 

Free range or not , the price is ridiculous.

 

For beggars and cheap charlies yes.

 

 

Here is a chicken bought from the local market in my smoker. Still learning how to use my oven, but it would probably help if the thermometer worked. Regardless, 3-4 hours in the smoker and a moist, tender chicken is the end result.

All supermarkets chickens are terrible, and 5star is maybe the worst.

Where do you come from ? How can you eat all this sh#t without even knowing ? Some people even tell that they had their best chicken in this country ? I feel like we are not living on the same planet.

 

 

BTW, the above mentioned Sirin Farms sometimes has their packaged chickens in the poultry section at the Central Chidlom supermarket. Look for the label with a kind of light olive green color. Hopefully it's worth the price you'll pay.

 

 

Hmmm, if my neighbors chickens dont stop squawking at 4am, I am about to have empirical data on the taste of free range chickens!

I'll report back LOL

Edited March 26, 20188 yr by GinBoy2

10 hours ago, gamesgplayemail said:

All supermarkets chickens are terrible, and 5star is maybe the worst.

Where do you come from ? How can you eat all this sh#t without even knowing ? Some people even tell that they had their best chicken in this country ? I feel like we are not living on the same planet.

 

 

You can't ague about taste what some like others dislike.

3 hours ago, robblok said:

You can't ague about taste what some like others dislike.

 

This is not about taste. This is fat sh#t oily chicken that I would not even give to my dogs.

 

 

Dunno if its been mentioned before, but doesnt all the chickens for food in thailand supplied by the one and only family. They have the massive mansion and grounds on Suk, Pattaya, or is it Jomtien.  ( just researched it, as I never post anything that is not 100% correct.

Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) Thailand is the

largest company, accounting for 29% of total production, followed

by Betagro, Saha Farm, Laemthong, Thai Foods Group and GFPT.)

Edited March 27, 20188 yr by keithpa
add

10 hours ago, keithpa said:

Dunno if its been mentioned before, but doesnt all the chickens for food in thailand supplied by the one and only family. They have the massive mansion and grounds on Suk, Pattaya, or is it Jomtien.  ( just researched it, as I never post anything that is not 100% correct.

Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) Thailand is the

largest company, accounting for 29% of total production, followed

by Betagro, Saha Farm, Laemthong, Thai Foods Group and GFPT.)

 

I was thinking that the champion was Cargill ?

 

https://www.cargill.co.th/en/poultry

 

 

8 hours ago, gamesgplayemail said:

 

I was thinking that the champion was Cargill ?

 

https://www.cargill.co.th/en/poultry

 

 

As I stated, I do my research, some people, even though they do their research, still get things wrong. I never do. " One of the country’s top exporters ".  Exporters.

21 hours ago, gamesgplayemail said:

 

This is not about taste. This is fat sh#t oily chicken that I would not even give to my dogs.

 

 

Your sadly mistaken, you can't argue about taste, i absolutely dislike som tam and think it should be considered as a poison but countless Thais would kill to eat it. So you see taste differs.

These threads can be confusing for some...

Edited March 28, 20188 yr by missoura

10 hours ago, gamesgplayemail said:

I was thinking that the champion was Cargill ?

 

https://www.cargill.co.th/en/poultry

 

 

Here's the answer to that:

 

 

https://www.krungsri.com/bank/getmedia/81639011-fd0b-4e89-8a38-64402b37ccce/IO_Chicken_2017_EN.aspx

 

And:
 

Quote

 

According to the Thai Broiler Processing Exporters Association,

there are more than 40 players active in the Thai poultry industry.

Integrated commercial farms or large to medium commercial farms

make up only around 20% of these market players. In terms of pro-

duction volume, Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) Thailand is the

largest company, accounting for 29% of total production, followed

by Betagro, Saha Farm, Laemthong, Thai Foods Group and GFPT.
 

On the Thai market, Thai Foods Group is market leader with a mar

ket share of around 17.8%, followed by CP, Betagro and Laemthong.

The remaining part is coming from local farmers.
 

Thailand’s poultry export production is dominated by five compa-

nies which are responsible for 70-75% of the total export produc-

tion. According to the Thai Broiler Processing Exporters Association

the largest are CP, Betagro, Saha Farm, GFPT and Cargill. Moreover,

most of these companies have implemented fully vertically inte-

gration farming.
 

There are a number of major foreign companies active in the Thai

poultry sector. One of them is Cargill, a fully integrated poultry pro-

cessing business with locations in Saraburi and Korat. It produces a

wide range of fully-cooked, frozen chicken products, with more

than 80% of its products exported to Japan, Europe, Canada and

Hong Kong. Cargill is currently expanding its buisness by investing

50 USD million in its poultry processing facility located in Nakhon

Ratchasima province in Thailand, thereby creating 1,400 more jobs.

 

https://www.rvo.nl/sites/default/files/2016/12/FACTSHEET-POULTRY-SECTOR-IN-THAILAND.PDF

Edited March 28, 20188 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

Hello, any chicken steak specialist here ?

Do you eat at the cheap 49 thb street steak or food court steaks ?

 

 

1 hour ago, GSFGSF said:

Hello, any chicken steak specialist here ?

Do you eat at the cheap 49 thb street steak or food court steaks ?

 

 

 

I don't go out of my way to eat street food but I have eaten them and they do taste good.  I prefer to eat food in nice restaurants or at home.  

Boredom has set in when you cannot find your own food in Thailand.

 

What is good for someone else might be terrible for you.

 

Think about it.

There's nothing wrong or greasy about the BBQ chicken you find roadside all over LOS.

Except they are Coated in sugar and you will see a glazed look about them. It's just the way it is in Thailand. Avoid unless you are starving

On 7/10/2018 at 1:06 AM, GSFGSF said:

Hello, any chicken steak specialist here ?

Do you eat at the cheap 49 thb street steak or food court steaks ?

 

 

 

 

I find only chicken steaks to be good at these street restaurants, pork and beef are awful.

And yes they are everywhere, and the places where I go are always full (Bangkok or Pattaya).

 

 

 

 

 

On 8/9/2017 at 4:10 AM, KittenKong said:

Thailand is the world capital of factory-farmed chicken and it might be quite hard to find any free-range chicken here, especially in the discount supermarkets and regular shops and markets, and these are the places that supply all the chicken stands. So perhaps try places like Tops/Central and Foodland and Villa.  Maybe if you hunt around for a small independent farm you might find something like this: http://hilltribeorganics.com/news/

 

Anyone who has eaten free-range chicken in France or elsewhere will know that the difference is like night and day compared to factory chicken. The price is a lot different also.

 

 

In the USA chicken is bleached.  It is banned from Europe along with USA due to growth hormones and antibiotics. 

On 8/8/2017 at 8:18 PM, bberrythailand said:

 

 

Sorry but USA is not a reference about any kind of food ! ... oh sorry, yes, maybe about hamburgers ?

 

 

 

Poppycock. San Francisco, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City have food as good as anywhere in the world. 

44 minutes ago, The manic said:

In the USA chicken is bleached.  It is banned from Europe along with USA due to growth hormones and antibiotics. 

 

Everything is bleached in USA, shrimps also.

So sad.

 

 

I like Polo Fried Chicken myself.

 

I used to grab some grilled chicken from an old lady down near Bangkok University night market that was cheap and yum plus 4.

 

Roast chicken, by that meaning Western style, ersatz or not, is not on my menu since it is a regular part of my life in the USA. I find it quite tasty, recognising that it is injected with all sorts of stuff but i can't spend time worrying about free range or such like at twice the price.

 

I love to mess with the organic snobs. Like I was at whole Foods once and asked the fishmonger if he had any fish caught as bycatch by exploited slave labour. He didn't laugh though.

Another vote for 5-Star rotisserie chicken for cooked to go.

For cooking at home I buy the skin-on breasts from Lotus.

As far as I’m concerned, if it tastes good, it is good.

5 hours ago, mogandave said:

Another vote for 5-Star rotisserie chicken for cooked to go.

For cooking at home I buy the skin-on breasts from Lotus.

As far as I’m concerned, if it tastes good, it is good.

 

Anything on which you put sugar will taste good, but it doesn't mean that it's good...

 

 

 
Anything on which you put sugar will taste good, but it doesn't mean that it's good...
 
 

Not a big fan of sugar, but i do like a good sugar cured ham, maybe thick sliced with eggs over-medium, home-fries smothered and covered & thick-cut sourdough toast...

Or fresh, ripe strawberries dipped in sour-cream and rolled in brown sugar...

On 8/12/2018 at 1:19 AM, gaff said:

 

Anything on which you put sugar will taste good, but it doesn't mean that it's good...

 

 

Lots of things have added sugar, but do not taste good. 

 

7 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

Lots of things have added sugar, but do not taste good. 

 

You never lived in Hawaii

On 8/9/2017 at 6:15 AM, Ulysses G. said:

Grilled chicken in Thailand is just as good as in the USA and a lot cheaper. I like that you can just buy the portion that you want.

 

I think the chicken here is far better than in the US. I find most chicken in the US is virtually tasteless, it is so pumped up with hormones, antibiotics and who knows what else. Here the chicken is actually tasty. I barely eat any chicken in the US, for this reason. Here, I love it. The Five Star kiosks do great rotisserie style chicken. And for only 120-130 baht for a whole chicken it is hard to beat.

On 8/11/2017 at 9:02 PM, bberrythailand said:

 

People deserve their cancer. If they had spent more on their food than on their mobile, they could still be alive.

 

 

 

Outrageously insulting.

 

Blaming people for getting cancer is disgusting, insulting, and disgraceful.

 

I've had it twice and have had a decent, well balanced diet all my life.

 

I didn't get a mobile phone until 5 years after cancer treatment so that has zero to do with it.

 

Growing up overseas I learnt how to make most foods from scratch and have always cooked with a minimum of processed foods.

 

You owe cancer survivors an apology

 

 ps I've been alive 11 years since treatment and am still alive.

 

The next thing I'd say to you would get me a suspension.